When comic and actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy ran for the Ukrainian presidency in 2019 he was treated as a joke. Now, as Luke Harding reports from Lviv, he personifies the defiance and dignity of Ukraine’s embattled populationOn Saturday morning, Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s latest video popped up on social media feeds around the world. “Good morning everybody! Ukrainians: there’s a lot of fake information online that I called on our army to lay down arms, and that there’s an evacuation,” he said. “I’m here. We won’t lay down our arms. We will defend our state, our territory, our Ukraine, our children. That’s all I have to say. Glory to Ukraine!” Continue reading…
When comic and actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy ran for the Ukrainian presidency in 2019 he was treated as a joke. Now, as Luke Harding reports from Lviv, he personifies the defiance and dignity of Ukraine’s embattled population
On Saturday morning, Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s latest video popped up on social media feeds around the world. “Good morning everybody! Ukrainians: there’s a lot of fake information online that I called on our army to lay down arms, and that there’s an evacuation,” he said. “I’m here. We won’t lay down our arms. We will defend our state, our territory, our Ukraine, our children. That’s all I have to say. Glory to Ukraine!”